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When an Orange Cat Becomes a WhatsApp Sticker: The Hidden Cost of a Viral Gimmick

Pakistani netizens turn an orange cat GIF into WhatsApp stickers, exposing a data‑draining meme habit that costs ordinary users time, bandwidth and security.

AI-generated editorial illustration: Conceptual editorial illustration for Cat GIF Becomes Sticker. Not a documentary photograph.
AI-generated editorial illustration: Cat GIF Becomes Sticker

Four separate X posts, posted within minutes of each other, spell out the same three‑step trick: copy the orange‑cat GIF, paste it into a self‑chat on WhatsApp, tap ‘Create sticker’. One user even confirms it worked. The method is undeniably simple, but the simplicity masks a costly externality that ordinary Pakistanis are paying for in real‑time data, storage and attention.

Video still of an orange tabby cat standing on hind legs at night, looking at the camera and waving its front paws
The orange‑cat clip that users copy to create WhatsApp stickers

What the posts actually say

“Just found out that you could get this sticker on WhatsApp … Copy the video and paste it in WhatsApp, create the sticker and done!” (expert6696). The same wording is repeated by @I_am_saifali, @Joshua_agabus and again by expert6696, each insisting the process is “very simple”. None of the posts provide a screenshot of the final sticker, nor do they quantify how many users have followed the recipe. The only quantitative claim comes from the X search headline, which boasts “15 K posts”, a figure that remains unverified beyond the headline itself.

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